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Amoeblog posts marked with gene pitney.(In which we wonder why one bothers... Hmph!)<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="disney dwarf" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Job/GrumpySnowWhite.jpg" /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">&quot;Social Security barely covers my cost of living and Diabetes has ruined my sense of freedom and vitality!&quot;</span></div>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">I&rsquo;m grumpy. Not <em>hella</em> grumpy, mind you, just regular grumpy. I suppose it&rsquo;s from a week of drinking booze and eating varieties of delicious, weird, snack food that Trader Joe&rsquo;s is always inventing, getting you hooked on, then discontinuing. (&ldquo;Dark chocolate covered, rosemary-seasoned aspirin, anyone?&rdquo;)</span></span><o:p></o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maybe it&rsquo;s because the weather just became truly warm here in L.A.; the kind of warm that makes you hate wearing shirts and leaves you wanting to bear-hug an electric fan. Most folks here love this weather &ndash; in fact, many moved here specifically for it. I am not those people. I like the <em>north</em> aspect to North America. And if it <em>is</em> going to get hot, I want it to smell like baked oak trees and wild grasses &ndash; not car exhaust and <strong>Beyonc&eacute;&rsquo;s </strong><em><strong>Heat</strong></em>.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">No amount of orange juice makes this stuff taste good, FYI.</span><!--[endif]--></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div style="clear: both;"><a style="font-size:13px;" href="/blog/2010/07/another-witty-and-unnecessary-blog/-in-which-we-wonder-why-one-bothers-hmph-.html">Continue reading...</a></div>http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2010/07/another-witty-and-unnecessary-blog/-in-which-we-wonder-why-one-bothers-hmph-.html
Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:34:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2010/07/another-witty-and-unnecessary-blog/-in-which-we-wonder-why-one-bothers-hmph-.html(In which we bid a tearful goodbye.)<div style="text-align: justify;">Today marks the final shift of one of my most favorite Amoebites of all time, the glamorous and enigmatic &ldquo;Smithy.&rdquo;<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="veiled woman" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Job/3713223587_38984f5664.jpg" /><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Dearly departed Smithy (<em>artist's depiction</em>)</span></div>
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Smithy is not her real name, though it is one of her nicknames, and that&rsquo;s about as close to &ldquo;the facts&rdquo; as most of us are likely to get. Smithy shrouds herself in mystery, and even if all her acquaintances pooled their knowledge of her past, it would scarcely be enough information to provide a decent Wikipedia entry, to say nothing of a biography. I keep the snippets of personal detail that I&rsquo;ve acquired in the past four years of working with her like a jealous secret; a precious baseball card that I never remove from its protective plastic.<br />
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I don&rsquo;t even know what she&rsquo;s going to be doing after she leaves Amoeba Music Hollywood. For all I know she&rsquo;s gotten a job lion taming, apprenticing to a witch doctor, or going deep undercover for the CIA in Beijing. All seem possible; all would hold some amount of appeal for her.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 199px; height: 263px;" alt="lion taming" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Job/lion_tamer.jpg" /><img style="width: 116px; height: 264px;" alt="africa" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Job/basothowitchdoctor.gif" /><img style="width: 179px; height: 264px;" alt="spy" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Job/00221917eae80c6edac939.jpg" /><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">See: Craigslist &gt; job opportunties</span></div>
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One thing we, her co-workers, <em>have</em> been privy to is what she&rsquo;s keen on in music and film. Even someone as secretive as Smithy has dorked out with the best of us music store geeks when the conversation&rsquo;s turned to our product. This blog entry will be a brief expos&eacute; of some of Smithy&rsquo;s pop culture paramours. In considering them, we may perhaps glean a little insight into this unknown soldier, but even if not, we&rsquo;ll still get to hear some perfectly ginchy tunes.<br />
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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:06:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2010/03/another-witty-and-unnecessary-blog/-in-which-we-bid-a-tearful-goodbye-.html